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antipaedobaptist

antipaedobaptist

See also: antipædobaptist

English

Alternative forms

  • anti-paedobaptist
  • anti-pedobaptist
  • anti-pædobaptist (obsolete)
  • antipedobaptist
  • antipædobaptist (obsolete)

Noun

antipaedobaptist (plural antipaedobaptists)

  1. Someone opposed to the practice of infant baptism.
    • 1861, James Chrystal, A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism:
      The Munster fanatics seem to have been Antipaedobaptist Anabaptists, but their baptism must have begun with themselves, as the followers of De Bruis's opinion on the subjects.
    • 1996, William R Estep, The Anabaptist Story (3rd edition), Eerdmans 1996, p. 22:
      They were all antipedobaptists, but at this point the comparison ceases.